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Canadian Man Denied Entry To US After Immigration Officers Searched His Scruff Account
A 30-year-old Canadian man from Vancouver was denied entry into the United States after immigration officers searched his laptop and social media accounts, including Scruff and BBRT.
From DailyXtra.com:
André, a 30-year-old Vancouver set decorator who declined to give his full name for fear of retaliation from US Customs, describes the experience as “humiliating.”
André says he was planning to visit his boyfriend, who was working in New Orleans. But when he was going through Customs preclearance at Vancouver airport last October, he was selected for secondary inspection, where an officer took his phone, computer and other possessions, and demanded the passwords for his devices.
“I didn’t know what to do. I was scared, so I gave them the password and then I sat there for at least an hour or two. I missed my flight,” André says. “He came back and just started grilling me. ‘Is this your email?’ and it was an email attached to a Craigslist account for sex ads. He asked me, ‘Is this your account on Scruff? Is this you on BBRT?’ I was like, ‘Yes, this is me.’”
When the officer asked him what he meant by “looking for loads,” André says he tried to explain, but the officer kept grilling him.
“I could tell just by his nature that he had no intentions of letting me through. They were just going to keep asking me questions looking for something,” he says. “So I asked for the interrogation to stop. I asked if I go back to Canada am I barred for life? He said no, so I accepted that offer.”
André attempted to visit his boyfriend again a month later, but this time he brought several pieces of documentation (bills, apartment lease, pay stubs) to indicate that he had every intention of returning to Vancouver. He even deleted the social media apps to avoid any confusion. But that only made the officers more suspicious.
“They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’ and that was it. I wasn’t let through. He said I’m a suspected escort. You can’t really argue with them because you’re trapped,” he says.
André says between the two airline tickets (non-refundable) and hotel reservations, he lost over $1,200.
Stephen Colbert: “Never Fjorget What Happened In Sweden”
Last night, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert did not miss his chance to riff on President Trump’s latest gaffe – the “incident” in Sweden that never happened.
“And just because this attack didn’t happen, folks, doesn’t mean we don’t stand in solidarity with all the people who did not suffer.”
Referencing Trump’s apparent news source for comment and his propensity for skipping intelligence briefings, Colbert said, “I guess Trump only accepts intelligence reports with the logo, ‘As Seen on TV.’”
President Trump’s “Great America” Looks Very White
Look at that “diverse” team of folks looking to MAGA!
Apparently, Donald Trump thinks a “great America” looks like eleven older white guys and one white woman.
A whole lotta white going on there.
@POTUS This picture is so white I need sunglasses.— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) February 17, 2017
@POTUS it’s oddly impressive that 1) this photo is this white in 2017 and 2) you are really proud of that fact.— Patrick Thornton (@pwthornton) February 17, 2017
@POTUS That’s a lot of white people…— Tim Wrobel (@Timotato) February 17, 2017
News Round-Up: February 20, 2017
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Some news items you may have missed:
• How did you celebrate Presidents Day? Or was it more a #NotMyPresident Day for you?
• Rumors are swirling that loathsome conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous could be fired soon from Breitbart website for his “man-boy-pedophilia comments” on the Drunken Peasants podcast last year.
• The Trump administration is set Tuesday to rescind Obama administration guidance to schools barring discrimination against transgender students and ensuring they have access to the restroom consistent with their gender identity. #Shameful
• Virginia state House of Delegates approves a “religious freedom” bill – HB 2025 – that would legalize LGBT discrimination in the name of religion. Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe has promised to veto the legislation.
• President Trump finally found someone to take the job of National Security Adviser.
• Check out royally ripped Charlie Hunnam in this new trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (release date May 12)
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopolous’ $250K Book Deal
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After video of conservative, loathsome, professional provocateur Milo Yiannopolous’ appearance on the Drunken Peasants podcast last year resurfaced showing him allegedly defending sex between adult men and boys of the age of 13 or 14, book publisher Simon & Schuster has cancelled the publication of his book, Dangerous.
Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
Simon & Schuster is canceling the publication of ‘Dangerous’ by Milo Yiannopoulos “After careful consideration.” Full story coming soon.— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) February 20, 2017
It’s sad that Simon & Schuster even needed “careful consideration” to cancel Yiannopolous’ book publication.
It wasn’t hateful racist, transphobic, white supremacist, misogynist nattering. In the end, it was defending man/boy sex.
Nice to know there’s a “bridge too far” somewhere.
Study: Teen LGB Suicides Dropped Thanks To Marriage Equality
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According to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics today, marriage equality has been linked to decreases in teenage suicide.
In studying suicide among high school students over 17 years, researchers found suicide attempts fell 7% for all high school students.
But, in states that legalized same-sex marriage before the June 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court ruling, suicide among LGB students dropped 14%. States that did not adopt marriage equality saw no change in the statistics.
Suicide ranks 10th in causes of death in the United States, but much higher (number 2) for young people age 10-24. But the numbers are much higher for those students who identify as LGB.
About 1 in 7 heterosexual students (15%) had seriously considered suicide compared to more than 2 in 5 lesbian, gay and bisexual students (43%).
CPAC Un-Invites Milo Yiannopolous As Keynote Speaker
Earlier today, I posted about professional conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous’ comments regarding young boys and adult men on the “Drunken Peasants” podcast last year which came to light in the past day.
The scandal erupted just a day after the American Conservative Union had asked Milo to be the keynote speaker this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Just minutes ago, CPAC rescinded the invite based on the offensive comments made by Milo in the videos.
It turns out there is something in the world that’s too extreme for CPAC.
The “un-invite” reads in part:
“Due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning pedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopolous to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“We realize that Mr. Yiannopolous has responded on Facebook, but it is insufficient. It is up to him to answer the ought questions and we urge him to immediately further address these disturbing comments.”
See the full statement below (click to enlarge image).
“@ACUConservative has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at #CPAC2017.” pic.twitter.com/sVWGnPCW7C— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) February 20, 2017
Dan Rather To Journalists: “I Know You Will Not Be Bullied Or Intimidated”
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Legendary newsman Dan Rather shares his thoughts on President Trump’s recent tweet demonizing the press as “the enemy of the American people.”
From Rather’s Facebook page:
I have resisted commenting on President Trump’s outrageous attack on the press with his tweet calling the media “the enemy of the American people.” It is a sentiment that is a deep betrayal of our national history. The evidence to the contrary is so overwhelming that to choose any one example is to play into the alternate reality Mr. Trump is seeking to exploit for his cynical political purposes.
My message is not for he who will not listen. Instead I wish to address his enablers, specifically those in the Republican Party who by their silence on this travesty normalize a behaviour that is antithetical to our Constitutional principles. Future generations will not look kindly on profiles in cowardice.
And to my fellow journalists, I know you will not be bullied or intimidated. Keep doing your job. Your country depends on your service. Courage.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017
Video: ‘Alt-Right’ Darling Milo Yiannopolous Seems To Defend Men Having Sex With Boys
The big news in LGBT political circles today are two videos featuring loathsome Milo Yiannopolous seeming to defend or give a pass to pedophilia.
Additionally, it appears he admits to being sexually molested as a young teen himself.
The Blaze reports:
Sunday morning, less than one day after the controversial announcement about the CPAC speaker lineup, video surfaced of Milo Yiannopoulos allegedly defending pedophilia in the past.
“We get hung up on this sort of child abuse stuff,” Yiannopoulos is heard saying in a video, acknowledging that he has a controversial point of view, “to the point where we are heavily policing consensual adults.”
“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents,” he added.
“It sounds like molestation to me,” an unnamed person tells Yiannopoulos in reply, likely an interviewer. “It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me.”
“But you know what? I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him,” Yiannopoulos replied, using a euphemism for male oral sex.
Yiannopoulos has since shared two posts on Facebook defending his language. Here’s the first:
There’s a video going around that purports to show me saying anti-semitic things (nope) and advocating for pedophilia (big nope). The shocking thing? It’s Republicans doing it. Sad to see establishment types collapse into the same tactics as social justice warriors: name calling, deceptively edited videos, confected moral outrage and public shaming. This is why they deserve to burn — and why they are burning. Here’s how I actually feel about pedophilia, which you’d know if you’d actually watched or read anything I’ve ever done. Or, you know, if you had two brain cells to rub together. There’s only one appropriate response to this sort of behavior, and it’s a gigantic FUCK YOU!
And his second Facebook post was much longer, which read, in part:
I have never defended and would never defend child abusers, as my reporting history shows. The world is messy and complicated, and I recognize it as such, as this furore demonstrates. But that is a red line for any decent person.
The videos do not show what people say they show. I *did* joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen. If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that’s my prerogative. It’s no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers.
National Review, whose journalists are tweeting about this, published an article defending Salon for giving a pedophile a platform.
I did say that there are relationships between younger men and older men that can help a young gay man escape from a lack of support or understanding at home. That’s perfectly true and every gay man knows it. But I was not talking about anything illegal and I was not referring to pre-pubescent boys.
I said in the same “Drunken Peasants” podcast from which the footage is taken that I agree with the current age of consent.
I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men. (I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.) That was a mistake. Gay men often use the word “boy” when they refer to consenting adults. I understand that heterosexual people might not know that, so it was a sloppy choice of words that I regret.
This rush to judgment from establishment conservatives who hate Trump as much as they hate me, before I have had any chance to provide context or a response, is one of the big reasons gays vote Democrat.
Many in the conservative world are already calling for Milo to be booted as the keynote speaker of CPAC this week.
Here’s two of the videos folks are talking about. One clip seems to be from a January 2016 episode of the “Drunken Peasants” podcast.
Here is a longer cut where Milo Yiannopoulos says that he “is advocating” for legal sex between 13 year olds! & older men. #CPAC2017 pic.twitter.com/1fiuv7TSKs— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 19, 2017